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February Current Events 2024: Science & Technology News

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The world is a very busy place, and it’s hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the Science & Technology news events you need to know so far for February 2024.

  1. Mark Zuckerberg Makes Drastic Review Of Apple’s Vision Pro

Mark Zuckerberg Makes Drastic Review Of Apple’s Vision Pro

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024 – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a personal shot at competitor business Apple’s latest headgear after the Vision Pro made

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EU adopts landmark AI law: Everything you need to know | Technology News

After years of discussion and debate, the European Union has finally unveiled its comprehensive rulebook for governing the use of AI technologies. As the first of its kind globally, these regulations are set to have far-reaching implications not just within the EU, but potentially setting a precedent for other countries grappling with the challenges posed by the rapid advancement of AI.

Let’s break the AI ​​Act down and see what its rules entail.

What’s the AI ​​Act about?

At its core, the AI ​​Act aims to strike a delicate balance between fostering innovation in the field while simultaneously safeguarding fundamental

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Tech News Today: Taylor Swift AI images spark outrage, Microsoft Teams back up after outage, and more | Technology News

The past couple of days have seen some major developments in the tech world, from controversial AI-generated images going viral to rumors about the next Nintendo console. Here are 5 key tech stories you need to know.

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    Taylor Swift AI images cause chaos on

    Highly offensive and explicit AI-generated images of singer Taylor Swift spread rapidly across X, sparking outrage from fans to the White House. One post with the images got over 45 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes before being removed, showing their viral spread. The images gained more traction as fans raised concerns, highlighting

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Tech News Today: Google search quality slips, Apple axes Watch Series 9 blood oxygen sensor, and more | Technology News

The whirlwind of innovation in tech never slows down. Here are 4 of the biggest happenings in tech this week:

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    New research shows Google may be slipping in results quality

    Google’s slipping search quality has researchers worried. A new study from European universities found Google is returning more low-quality affiliate marketing content in product searches. As sites optimize for SEO over value, users suffer from irrelevant results aimed at earning commissions. Google tweaks its algorithm but struggles to keep up with SEO gamers.

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    Which is the best country to get the Galaxy S24 Ultra from?

    Samsung’s new Galaxy

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Biden-Harris Administration Designates 31 Tech Hubs Across America

WASHINGTON, DC — The Biden-Harris administration, through the US Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), today announced the designation of 31 Tech Hubs in regions across the country. This is the first phase of the new Tech Hubs program, which is an economic development initiative designed to drive regional innovation and job creation by strengthening a region’s capacity to manufacture, commercialize, and deploy technology that will advance American competitiveness. The program invests directly in burgeoning, high-potential US regions and aims to transform them into globally competitive innovation centers.

Tech Hubs was authorized by the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act,

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Far-left group claims attack on Tesla factory in Germany | Technology News

Production halted at electric vehicle plant in Brandenburg after suspected arson attack causes power outage.

Tesla has halted production at its German factory after power lines supplying the plant were set on fire in an act of “sabotage” claimed by a far-left group.

Emergency services were called early on Tuesday after reports of a burning electricity pylon southeast of Berlin close to the Tesla plant.

The blaze was extinguished, but damage to the lines knocked out power to the electric car factory, located in the state of Brandenburg, as well as surrounding villages.

Police said they have launched an investigation

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Five focus areas for India in tech next year

At the forefront of all tech trends is artificial intelligence (AI), and its subset, generative AI, or gen AI, was where all the focus was in 2023. Come 2024, most conversations are likely to be based on realizing real-world, practical use cases of gen AI. Speaking about its adoption, John Roese, global chief technology officer (CTO) at Dell, said: “While generative AI has sparked incredibly creative ideas of how it will transform business and the world, there are very few real-world, scaled generative AI activities. 2024 will see the first wave of generative AI enterprise projects reach maturity levels that

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China, Russia and Iran ‘attempting to illegally acquire’ US technology, top DHS official says

The head of a top unit at the Department of Homeland Security says in a new interview that “sensitive” materials are showing up overseas — in Iranian weapons — in the latest warning about how US adversaries are believed to be trying to steal American technology .

“The Iranian drones that are being recovered on the battlefield in Ukraine, that are being recovered on the battlefield throughout the Middle East, they do have sensitive US communications systems and they have sensitive microelectronics,” Jim Mancuso, the assistant director of the Global Trade Division at Homeland Security Investigations, told ABC News.

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